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2004 Program Info
LCI's
5th International Conference, Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution
2004, was held
in Austin, Texas. The 4-day event, which included
the conference and tutorials, featured
a broad range of presentations and papers from HPC and large-scale
cluster
computing
professionals in industry, academia, and government. Speakers addressed
efforts to integrate and develop science and engineering applications
for large-scale clusters, to achieve maximum performance and scalability.
A full day of tutorials will be offered as part of the overall
program.
The technical program included both peer-reviewed paper presentations
and discipline- and industry-specific sessions that offered researchers
and industry leaders the opportunity to present their experiences
with applications. tools, user environments, and administration
of large-scale clusters. Presentations from industry were specifically
invited from the petroleum and geophysics, bioinformatics,
aerospace and automotive, and finance sectors.
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Monday, May 17 |
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Tutorial
A-I:
Application Performance Analysis Tools for Linux
Clusters
Felix Wolf, University of Tennessee,
USA; Rick Kufrin, NCSA/UIUC, USA; Philip
J. Mucci, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
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Tutorial
S-I:
Clustermatic:
An Innovative Approach to Simplified Cluster
Computing
Gregory R. Watson, Ronald
Minnich, Erik
A. Hendriks, Matthew
J. Sottile, Los
Alamos National Lab, USA
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Break |
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Tutorial
A-I: (Continued)
Application Performance
Analysis Tools for Linux Clusters
Felix
Wolf, University of Tennessee, USA; Rick
Kufrin, NCSA/UIUC,
USA; Philip J. Mucci, Royal Institute of Technology,
Sweden
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Tutorial S-I:
(Continued)
Clustermatic:
An Innovative Approach to Simplified Cluster
Computing
Gregory R. Watson, Ronald
Minnich, Erik
A. Hendriks, Matthew
J. Sottile, Los Alamos National Lab, USA |
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Lunch |
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Tutorial
A-II:
LCI Applications Tutorial: IA32, IA64 and Opteron
Architecture and Programming Techniques for
the Performance Programmer
John Towns, NCSA/University
of Illinois, USA, and David
Klepacki, IBM, USA
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Tutorial
S-I: (Continued)
Clustermatic:
An Innovative Approach to Simplified Cluster
Computing
Gregory R. Watson, Ronald
Minnich, Erik
A. Hendriks, Matthew
J. Sottile, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
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Break |
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Tutorial A-II: (Continued)
LCI Applications
Tutorial: IA32, IA64 and Opteron Architecture
and Programming Techniques for the Performance
Programmer
John Towns, NCSA/University of Illinois, USA, and
David Klepacki, IBM, USA
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Tutorial
S-I: (Continued)
Clustermatic:
An Innovative Approach to Simplified Cluster
Computing
Gregory R. Watson, Ronald
Minnich, Erik
A. Hendriks, Matthew
J. Sottile, Los Alamos National Lab, USA |
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End of Tutorials |
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Tuesday, May 18 |
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| 8:30am |
Welcome to
the Conference |
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Plenary
Session I:
Brian Ropers-Huilman
Center for Computation and Technology,
Louisiana State University
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| 10:00am |
Break |
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Cluster
Health
A Failure
Predictive and Policy-Based High Availability
Strategy for Linux High Performance Computing
Cluster
Chokchai Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University,
USA
Listening
to Your Cluster with LoGS
Jim Prewett, HPC@UNM, University of New
Mexico, USA
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| 12:00pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30pm |
Applications
Papers I:
Dynamic Load-Balancing Algorithm Porting on
MIMD Machines
Francisco Muniz, CDTN/CNEN, Brazil
Optimizing Linux
Cluster Performance by Exploring the Correlation
between Application Characteristics and Gigabit
Ethernet Device Parameters
Onur Celebioglu, Dell Inc., USA
Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Parallel Linear
Algebra Kernel
Sue Goudy, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA |
Systems
Papers I:
Unified
Heterogeneous HPCC Hardware Management Framework
Ying-Chin Fang, Dell Inc., USA
Cluster
Security as a Unique Problem with Emergent
Properties: Issues and Techniques
Joseph Greenseid, NCSA/University of Illinois,
USA
Batch System Deployment on a Production Terascale
Cluster
Karl W. Schulz, TACC/University of Texas, USA
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| 3:00pm |
Break |
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Vendor Presentations I:
The File System Challenge in HPC
Ben Rosen, Dell Inc., USA
Smart Interconnect: Recent Developments in Myricom
Hardware and Software
Patrick Geoffray, Myricom, Inc.
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End of Presentations |
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8:00pm |
Conference
Reception at the Renaissance Hotel |
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Wednesday, May 19 |
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9:00am |
Plenary
Session II:
David Jursik
V.P., IBM
Worldwide Deep Computing
Sales, USA |
10:15am |
Break |
10:30am |
Data
Rates
A NIC-Offload
Implementation of Portals for Quadrics QsNet
Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories,
USA
Benchmarking Parallel I/O Performance for Computational
Fluid Dynamics Applications
Thomas Hauser, Utah State University, USA |
12:00pm |
Lunch |
1:30pm |
Applications
Tech Presentations:
ChaMPIon/Pro - The Complete MPI-2 for Massively
Parallel Linux
Rossen Dimitrov, MPI Software Technology, Inc.
Overcoming the Gap between Peak and Achievable
Performance in High-Performance Computing
Ron Westfall,
Cray Canada
High-Performance Computing: Past, Present,
and Future
Bruce Moxon, Panasas
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Systems
Tech Presentations:
Future
Directions Cluster Software
James Laros, Sandia National Laboratories
Automatic Software Updates on Heterogeneous Clusters
with STACI
Michael Shuey, Purdue University
Building Clusters with IBM BladeCenter and JS20
Blades
Gregory P. Rodgers, IBM
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3:00pm |
Break |
3:30pm |
Vendor
Presentations II:
Clustering Solutions from IBM
Rebecca Austen and Jay
Urbanski, IBM, USA
Experiences with Large Production Clusters
at Sandia
Robert Ballance, Sandia National Laboratories
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4:45pm |
End
of Presentations |
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Thursday, May 20 |
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9:00am
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Plenary Session III:
Dr.
Reza Rooholamini
Director, Enterprise Solutions,
Dell Product Group, USA
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10:15am
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Break
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10:30am
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Applications Papers II: Education
and Training
In Search of Clusters
for High-Performance Computing Education
Paul Gray, University of Northern Iowa, USA
Classroom Exercises for Grid Services
Amy Apon, University of Arkansas, USA
Automating the Large-Scale Collection and Analysis
of Performance Data on Linux Clusters
Rick Kufrin, NCSA/University
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Systems Papers II: Processor and File System
Performance
Performance
Characteristics of Dual-Processor HPC Systems
Based on 64-bit Commodity Processors
Chona S. Guiang,
TACC/University of Texas, USA
An Analysis of State-of-the-Art Parallel File
System for Linux
Martin W. Margo, SDSC/University of California
- San Diego, USA
Comparing Linux Clusters for the Community
Climate System Model
Matthew Woitaszek, University of Colorado
- Boulder, USA |
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Lunch
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1:30pm
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Panel Discussion:
The Future of Linux on HPC Clusters
Moderator: Robert Ballance, Sandia National Laboratories
Panelists: Pete Beckman, Argonne
National Laboratories;
Dilma Da Silva, IBM Research; Barney Maccabe, University
of New Mexico; and Ron Minnich, LANL
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3:00pm
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Adjourn Conference
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